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That's not just for the fighters.... There's two other fleets coming online over the next few years that can use some of those things. Over 3000 SDBs is pretty awesome.

Not that we'll be there soon (fully automated transport of personnel). But if and when the day comes I don't see people refusing it. You gonna refuse the ride out if it doesn't have a human in front? Here's the reality. There was a time when elevators had operators. People moved on when...

I'll let Max give the true professional opinion. But I do remember this anecdote from a Red Flag: https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/02/20/air-force-chief-defends-f-35a-against-complaints-boasting-kills-at-red-flag/ The automation and information fusion was specifically...

From the Backgrounder. Lots of people here gave commented too on the lack of integration in the CAF. Well this is part of fixing that.

It's a question of ratio. Most major air forces are aiming for a ratio of 2-3 unmanned systems for every manned system by 2050. By this view, after we get 88 F-35s (or whatever our final mix is in 2035), our biggest gap won't be manned aircraft. You're falling for the same fallacy here as a...

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/news/2025/12/canadian-joint-forces-command.html Joint Forces Command is up.

You actually believe the RCAF can blackmail the government?

They did exactly that. In Parliament. And that's what the Trudeau Liberals used as an excuse to try and sole source the Super Hornet. It was a nice setup.

Sure. But this "debate" has taken on a life of its own. The only thing Carney ever said was that more of Canada's defence spending should stay in Canada. Not once has he ever said that we shouldn't buy weapons from the US. Or that it's a risk to do so. Anti-American is hysteria is so high...

For better or worse the F-35 is way more politically sensitive. So just about most things the Commander would say will either fall on deaf ears or worse be interpreted as political interference by a public servant. Keep in mind that this forum is the faithful who will readily accept what she...

Knowing the solution and having the resources to implement it are two different things. Not to mention priorities that impact from higher. If you have a certain pool of pilots and the government or the CAF decides that ops takes precedence over pilot production, well that's life. And of...

I think the only thing stopping access here is a giant cheque. If we order in a large enough amount we'll get priority. But like everything else, now that build in Canada is a priority, you won't see any easy order for made in Europe.

I really hope we exercise our options and maybe consider a top up order on the P-8 before it goes out of production. Our currently planned fleet and squadrons are small.

The Globaleye has a thing on the roof that makes it hard to place a boom receptacle there. They could, in theory, have their own refuelling probe and do hose and drogue. I would feel so sorry for the pilots in that situation. Fundamentally the Globaleye is just not well designed for Canada...

Take out "100% Space based system"? You have no idea what that means. We're talking hundreds of satellites. Nobody is going to be able to take out all of that without causing Kessler Syndrome. Also it's.actually easier to replace a satellite than an E-7. This is not well understood. In a...

I see no difference between him and all the folks who recently became instant Wikipedia experts on fighter jets in the socials and regularly lecture us on what the RCAF needs. In this particular case apparently if we just create an entirely new service paradigm all our pilot models can be...

Rough math says that the US has 33x the number of military aircraft across all their services that the RCAF does. When you're that big your manpower considerations are just different. It's not unusual to come across an American reservist flyer whose day job is completely mundane like insurance...

What are you guys going to do with all that free time when the mission planner does all your homework for you? Volleyball pitch re-enactments from Top Gun? I kid. I kid..... But has there been any discussion about how your planning workflow will change with that new trade?

It's not even the flying part that is necessarily hard (though it might be if you're doing it only occasionally). It's being proficient at employing the airplane as a weapon that's the truly challenging part. And until we have fully stacked up our fighter force, the training system, etc we...

I have always said that our sister services have people just as ignorant about our business as any Canadian Redditor. This discussion is proof. Being in the CAF doesn't automatically you smarter about other services unless you actually learn from those folks. Some folks just want to argue ad...